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Hello there! It’s been a while!
Been a long while since I blogged, been largely too busy if I’m honest. And – for the most part – not in the good way.
Thus far 2011 has been something of a strain. I started a new job in January, somewhat recklessly heading back to a company that worked me into the ground last time I was there, but this time doing something rather different. I kind of felt I’d done “support” after 9.5 years, and the opportunity came back to become a trainer of software instead.
So yeah… me, in a room, with a captive audience, being paid to swan about and pretend I know about stuff.
It’s ideal isn’t it?
But it has thus far necessitated two trips out to Burlington in Massachusetts: 7 and a half weeks all told in an area which had, at the time, fairly dramatic weather. (We were snowed in to the hotel twice.)
Still, I appear now to have been “approved” by the company and have actually started training clients, which I have to say I do rather love.
Less good is the insane quantity of admin and uncertainty that goes with it, but the core part of the job is enjoyable. And my boss is fabulous so that’s good too. (We both started at the same time so are just guiding each other through the whirlwind, which is nice.)
And while I was out there last time, my remaining grandparent had a stroke, became gravely ill and died. His funeral last week was a rather affecting affair. On the plus side it was very well officiated by my dad, my brother did an excellent reading, and it was nice to meet members of the family who I haven’t seen in decades. Still a sad occasion, though.
In other news the flatmate and I are not extending our tenancy in Streatham. The boiler has finally driven us past the brink of insanity and when we were told we had to sign up for another year or go we started to look elsewhere.
Which of course has left us at the mercy of the general uselessness of letting agents. And trying to fit all this in amongst the work and travel and bank holidays and so on is proving a strain.
Today I had forty cardboard boxes delivered. At the rate Chris and I are going we may be fashioning them into a house until we find somewhere better. Oh well!
Posted on April 21, 2011 | Filed Under My So-Called Life
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